Department of Computer Science - Parallel Computing and Complex Systems

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science	Department of Computer Science
Parallel Computing and Complex Systems

Active Projects:

Optimization in natural systems: ants, bees and slime moulds

Research Grant Award (Program Grant) from the Human Frontier Science Organisation (http://www.hfsp.org/) - awarded 2007 für 3 Jahre

Project partner

David Sumpter David (Mathematics Institute, Uppsala University, Sweden)
Madeleine Beekman (Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Lab., School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia)
Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)

SOS-TC Organisation and Control of Self-Organising Systems in Technical Compounds

DFG-Project (accepted Juli 2005) within the DFG Priority Program Organic Computing SPP 1183

Refined Methods for Inference of Metazoan Phylogeny Using Mitochondrial Genome Arrangement Data

DFG-Project (accepted 2005) within the DFG Priority Program "Deep Metazoan Phylogeny - Stammesgeschichte der Großgruppen der Tiere" (SPP 1174)

Project partner

Peter Stadler (University of Leipzig, Bioinformatics)
Martin Schlegel (University of Leipzig, Institute for Biology II)
Bernd Schierwater (TH Hannover, Institute of Animal Ecology and Cell Biology)

HyperRec Models and Algorithms for Hyperreconfigurable Hardware

DFG-Project (since 2003) within the DFG Priority Program Reconfigurable "Computing Systems" SPP 1148

AI-ES-DE Selforganising Sensor- and Overlay Networks

The project is supported by the DAAD within the program ``Acciones Integradas Hispano-Alemanas'' (2007-2008)

Project partner

María José Serna Iglesias, Maria J. Blesa Aguilera and Christian Blum (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Department of Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics)

EMBIO Emergent Organisation in Complex Biomolecular Systems
STREP project within the European "New and Emerging Science and Technology" Programme, PATHFINDER initiative on "Tackling complexity in Science" (2005-2008)

Participants

University of Cambridge (UK)
University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
University of Florence (Italy)
Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
University of Vienna (Austria)
University of Heidelberg (Germany)
University of Leipzig (Germany)
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (Germany)

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Completed Projects:

Algorithms for Structured Sequences and Trees in Phylogeny

The project is supported by the DAAD within the program ``DAAD/NSC Joint Research Collaboration'' (2006-2007)

Project partner

Kun-Mao Chao (National Taiwan University, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering)

SIRA Methods of Swarm Intelligence and Reconfigurable Architectures

DFG-Project (Accepted 2002, Funded 2003-2006)

Decentraliced Metaheuristics
The project is supported by the DAAD within the program ``Acciones Integradas Hispano-Alemanas'' (2005-2006)
Project partner

Enrique Alba Torres (Departamento Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computacion, Universidad de Málaga, Spanien)

Optimization Algorithms and the Organisation of Social Insect Societies
Funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) by a Linkage International Award
Project partner

Madeleine Beekman and Ben Oldroyd (University of Sydney, School of Biological Sciences and School of Mathematical & Statistics)

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